Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

223. MS M.399, fol. 112r

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 112r

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

The initial I that begins the Gospel Sequence of John is decorated with foliate ornament.
Within a historiated border framing the text, a horseman with a dagger carried in his belt rides along a road toward a woman standing in the road. Figures are within the landscape, and buildings of a city are seen in the distance.